Catherine the Great & Potemkin

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  ARCHIVES, PERIODICALS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  AAE

  Archives des Affairs Etrangères, Quai d’Orsay, Paris, volumes 68–139

  AGAD

  Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie

  AGS

  Arkhiv Gosudarstvennogo Soveta

  AHR

  American History Review

  AKV

  Arkhiv Knyaza Vorontsova

  AVPRI

  Arkhiv Vneshnyey Politiki Rossiyskhoy Imperii

  B&F

  Joseph II und Graf Ludwig Cobenzl: Ihr Briefwechsel Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, ed. A. Beer and J. Fiedler, Vienna 1873

  BM

  British Museum, London

  CASS/CSS

  Canadian American Slavic Studies/Canadian Slavic Studies

  CHOIDR

  Chteniya v Imperatorskom Obshchestve Istorii Drevnostyey Rossiyskikh

  CMRS

  Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique

  CtG/CII

  Catherine the Great/the Second, Empress of Russia

  DVS

  Dukh Velikogo Suvorova ili Anekdoty Podlinnyye o Knyaze Italiyskoye. Grafe Alexandre Vasileviche Suvorove-Rymnikskom, St Petersburg 1808

  FtG/FII

  Frederick the Great/the Second, King of Prussia

  GAOO

  Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Odesskoy Oblasti

  GAP/GAPT

  Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin (–Tavrichesky)

  GARF

  Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoy Federatskii, Moscow

  GIM OPI

  Gosudarstvenny Istoricheskiy Muzyey Otdel Pismennykh Istochnikov

  GPB

  Gosudarstvennaya Publishnaya Biblioteka

  H

  Sir James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury

  HZ

  Historische Zeitschrift

  IRLI

  Institut Russkoy Literatury Akademii Nauk SSSR

  ITUAK

  Izvestiya Tavricheskoy Uchenoy Arkhivoy Komissii

  IV

  Istoricheskiye Vestnik

  IZ

  Istoricheskiy Zapiski

  JB

  Jeremy Bentham

  JII

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  KD

  M. I. Kutuzov, Dokumenty, Moscow 1950–6, volumes 1–5

  KFZ

  Kamer Fureskiy Zhurnal

  L

  V. S. Lopatin, ed. Ekaterina II i G. A. Potemkin, Lichnaya Perepiska 1769–91, Moscow 1997

  MIRF

  Materialy dlya istorii Russkogo flota

  N-S

  Charles, Prince de Nassau-Siegen

  PRO

  Public Record Office, London

  PSZ

  Polnoye Sobraniye Zakonov

  RA

  Russkiy Arkhiv 1863–1917

  RGADA

  Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov, Moscow

  RGIA

  Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Istoricheskiy Arkhiv, St Petersburg

  RGVIA

  Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Voenno-Istoricheskiy Arkhiv, Moscow

  RP

  Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, Russkiye Portrety xxviii i xix stoletiy (Portraits Russes), St Petersburg, 1906–13, volumes 1–5

  RS

  Russkaya Starina 1870–1918

  RV

  Russkiy Vestnik

  SA

  Stanislas-Augustus (Poniatowski), King of Poland

  SB

  (Sir) Samuel Bentham

  SBVIM

  Sbornik Voenno-Istoricheskikh Materialov, St Petersburg, 1893–5

  SD

  A. V. Suvorov, Dokumenty, ed G. P. Mescheryakov, Moscow 1949–53, volumes 1–4

  SeA

  Severny Arkhiv

  SEER

  Slavonic and East European Review

  SENA

  Senatskiy Arkhiv

  SIMPIK KV

  Sbornik Istoricheskikh Materialov po Istorii Kubanskoyo Kazachego Voyska 1737–1901, ed I. I. Dmitrenko, St Petersburg 1896

  SIRIO

  Sbornik Imperatorskogo Russkogo Istoricheskogo Obshchestva

  TGV

  Tavricheskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti

  VI

  Voprosy Istorii

  VIZ

  Voenno-Istoricheskiy Zhurnal

  ZG

  Zapiski Garnovskogo

  ZOOID

  Zapiski Odesskogo Obshchestva Istorii Drevostye

  PRIMARY

  Albrecht, J. F. E., Panslavin Fürst der Finsternis, und seine geliebte, Prince of Darkness, a satirical tale being the History of Catherine II and Potemkin, Germanien 1794

  Alexeev, G. P., ‘Episode from the Life of Prince Potemkin’, IV (1889) vol 37

  Anonymous, General Observations Regarding the Present State of the Russian Empire, London 1787

  Anonymous, Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte des Ritters und Reichs-fürstern Potemkin, Freistadt-am-Rhein 1792

  Anonymous, Authentic Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Catherine II, Empress of all the Russias, collected from authentic manuscripts, translations, etc of the King of Sweden, Right Honourable Lord Mountmorres, Lord Malmesbury, Monsieur de Volney and other indisputable authorities, 2nd edn, London 1797

  Anonymous, La Cour de la Russie il y a cent ans 1725–1783, extraits des dépêches des ambassadeurs anglais et français, Berlin 1858

  Anonymous, The Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin, comprehending original anecdotes of Catherine II and of the Russian court, translated from the German, London 1812 and 1813

  Anonymous, ‘Songs of the Russian army about Potemkin’, ZOOID 9 (1875): 459–6

  Antoine, M. (Baron de Saint-Joseph), Essai Historique sur le commerce et la navigation de la Mer Noire, Paris 1820

  Anspach, Margravine of (Lady Craven), Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, London 1789

  Anspach, Margravine of (Lady Craven), Memoirs, London 1826

  Asseburg, A. F. von der, Denkwürdigkeiten, Berlin 1842

  Banq, J., Letters to G. A. Potemkin, RGVIA f52

  Barbarykin, A. D., Legend about Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky, RA (1907) 11

  Bentham, Jeremy, Collected Works, ed Sir J. Bowring, Edinburgh 1838–43

 
; Bentham, Jeremy, Correspondence of, London volumes 2–4 1968–1981

  Bentham, Sir Samuel, Papers, Archives f 33540 BM

  Bezborodko, A. A., Letters to G. A. Potemkin, RS (1873)

  Bezborodko, A. A., Letters to S. R. Vorontsov, A. R. Vorontsov, P. V. Zavadovsky etc, AKV 13, Moscow 1879 (also ZOOID 11 and SIRIO 29)

  Bezborodko, A. A., ‘Pisma A. A. Bezborodka k grafu P. A. Rumiantsevu 1777–93’, ed P. M. Maykov, Starina i novizna (1900) vol 3

  Bibikov, A. A., Zapiski o zhizni i sluzhbe Alexandra Ilicha Bibikova, Moscow 1865

  Bolotov A. T., Zhizn i priklyucheniya Andreya Bolotova 1738–93, Leningrad 1931

  Branicka, A. V., Letters to G. A. Potemkin, RGADA f 11

  Bruce, P. H., Memoirs, London 1782

  Buckinghamshire, Earl of, The Despatches and Correspondence of John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, Ambassador to the Court of Catherine II of Russia 1762–5, ed A. D. Collyer, London 1900–2

  Bulgakov, Ya. I., Iz bumagy Ya. I. Bulgakova, RA (1905) 7 pp 337–408

  Bulgakov, Ya. I., Pisma Ya. I. Bulgakova k knyazyu Potemkinu, RA (1861)

  Burke, Edmund, Collected Works, London 1826

  Casanova, Giacomo, Chevalier de Seingalt, History of my Life, trans Williard R. Trask, Baltimore and London 1997

  Catherine II

  Bumagi Ekateriny 1744–1796, SIRIO 7, 10, 13, 27, 42

  Imperatritsa Ekaterina II i knyaz Potemkin-Tavrichesky, podlinnaya ikh perepiska, RS (1876) 16

  Pisma imperatritsky ii k Grimmu 1774–1796, SIRIO 23, St Petersburg 1878

  Pisma imp. Ekateriny II k gr. P. V. Zavadovskomu 1775–1777, ed I. A. Barskov, Russkiy istoricheskiy zhurnal (1918) vols 2, 3, 4

  Catherine II: Books

  Correspondence of Catherine the Great when Grand Duchess with Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Letters from Count Poniatowski, ed and trans the Earl of Ilchester and Mrs Langford-Brooke, London 1928

  Documents of Catherine the Great, the Correspondence with Voltaire and the Instruction of 1767 in the English Text of 1768, ed W. P. Reddaway, Cambridge 1931

  Filosofskaya i politicheskaya perepiska Imperatritsy Ekateriny II s doctorom Zimmermanom 1785–1792, St Petersburg 1803

  Joseph II und Katharina von Russland. Ihr briefwechsel, ed Alfred Ritter von Arneth, Vienna 1869

  Lettres de Catherine II au prince de Ligne 1780–96, Paris 1924

  Memoirs of Catherine the Great, ed D. Maroger, London 1955

  Memoirs of Catherine the Great, trans Katherine Antony, New York 1927

  Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, correspondance avec l’Imperatrice de Russie, vol lviii, Paris 1821

  Sochineniya imperatritsy Ekateriny II na osnovanii podlinnykh rukopsye c obyasnitelnmi primechaniyami, ed A. N. Pypin, vols 1–12, St Petersburg 1901–7

  Catherine II: Miscellaneous Papers

  Catherine’s charter about the recognition of Potemkin’s merits, GAOO f 162

  Instruction to our Gentleman of the Bedchamber G. A. Potemkin, RGADA f 18

  Letters to:

  V. S. Popov, RGADA f 5

  G. A. Potemkin on Georgia, VI (1983) no 7 (RGVIA f 52)

  A. N. Samoilov, RA (1878) no 10

  O. -M. Stackelberg, RS, vol 3, St Petersburg 1871

  Reports and orders to G. A. Potemkin on the south, RGADA f 16

  Rescripts to G. A. Potemkin, SIRIO 27, St Petersburg 1880

  Rescripts to G. A. Potemkin about the Crimea and development of Kherson, RGADA f 5 d 85

  Rescripty G. A. Potemkinu 1791, RA (1874) 2 pp 246–58

  Cerenville, J. E., La Vie de Prince Potemkine, rédigée par un officier français d’après les meilleurs ouvrages allemands et français, qui ont paru sur la Russie à cette époque, Paris 1808

  Chernyshev, G. I., Letters to S. F. Golitsyn during siege of Ismail, RA (1791)

  Cook, J., Voyages and Travels through the Russian Empire, Edinburgh 1770

  Corberon, Marie-Daniel Bourrée, Chevalier de, Un Diplomate français à la cour de Catherine II 1775–1780, journal intime, ed L. H. Labande, Paris 1904

  Coxe, W., Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark, London 1874

  Custine, the Marquis de, Empire of the Tsar: A Journey through Eternal Russia, New York 1989

  Czartoryski, Adam, Memoirs, London 1888

  Damas d’Antigny, J. E. R., Mémoires du Comte Roger de Damas, Paris 1912

  Dashkova, E. R., The Memoirs of Princess Dashkov, ed and trans Kyril Fitzlyon, London 1958

  Deboli, Augustyn, Secret despatches to King Stanislas-Augustus of Poland, AGAD 420–1

  Derzhavin, G. R., Letters to V. S. Popov, Reshetilovskiy Archive

  Derzhavin, G. R., Sobraniye sochineniya, St Petersburg 1864–72

  Derzhavin, G. R., Works, Moscow 1985

  Diderot, Denis, Mémoires pour Catherine II, ed P. Vernière, Paris 1966

  Diderot, Denis, Oeuvres complètes, ed J. Assezat and M. Tourneux, Paris 1875–7

  Dimsdale, Baroness Elisabeth, An English Lady at the Court of Catherine the Great: the Journal of Baroness Elisabeth Dimsdale 1781 (ed. Anthony Cross), Cambridge 1989

  Dmitrenko, I. I. (ed), SIMPIK KV, St Petersburg 1896

  Dolgoruky, Yury Vladimirovich, Notes (Zapiski), RS (1889) no 9, pp 481–517

  Dubrovin, N. F. (ed), Prisoyedineniye Kryma k Rossii (reskripty, pisma, relatsii, doneseniya), St Petersburg 1885–9

  Economic Descriptions of Russian towns, Nikolaev, Kherson etc, RGADA f 1355

  Engelhardt, L. N., Zapiski 1766–1836, Moscow 1868 and (ed I. I. Fedyukin) 1997

  Erenstrum, John-Albert, Historical Notes, RS (1893)

  Esterhazy, Valentin Ladislas, Nouvelles Lettres du Comte Valentin L. Esterhazy à sa femme 1792–95, ed Ernest Daudet, Paris 1909

  Faleev, M. L., Reports to Potemkin, ZOOID 8, 13

  Family information about Prince Potemkin, RS (1872) 5

  Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia, Letters to Potemkin, RGIA, St Petersburg ff 1640–1

  Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia, Politische Correspondenz, Berlin 1879–1939

  Garnovsky, M., Zapiski Mikhaila Garnovskago, 1786–90, RS (1876) 15, 16, 17

  Glinka, S. N., Novoye sobraniye russkikh anekdotov, Moscow 1829

  Glinka, S. N., Russkiye chteniya, izdavaemye Sergeem Glinkoyu, otechestvennye istoricheskiy pamyatniki XVIII i XIX stoleiya, St Petersburg 1845

  Glinka, S. N., Zapiski, St Petersburg 1895

  Goertz, J. E. von der, Mémoire sur la Russie, ed W. Stribrny, Wiesbaden 1969

  Golovina, V. N., Zapiski grafini Golovinoy, ed S. Shumigorsky, St Petersburg 1900; Souvenirs, Paris 1910; Memoirs, London 1910

  Gribovsky, A. M., Notes on Catherine the Great, Moscow 1864

  Gribovsky A. M., Vospominaniya i dnevnkik Adriana Moiseevicha Gribovskago, RA (1899) 1

  Guthrie, Maria, A Tour performed in the years 1795–6 through the Taurida or Crimea, London 1802

  Harris, James, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, London 1844

  Helbig, Georg von, Ein interessanter betirang zur Regierungsgeschichte Katarina der Zweiten, Leipzig 1804 Helbig, Georg von, Potemkin der Taurier. Anecdoten zur Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Zeit, Minerva, ein Journal historischen und politischen Inhalts herausgegeben von J. M. von Archenholtz, Hamburg 1797–1800

  Helbig, Georg von, Russische Günstlinge, Berlin 1917

  Helbig, Georg von, ‘Russkie izbrannye i sluchainye liudi’, RS 56 (10) 1887

  Hercules II (Herakles, Irakli), King/Tsar of Kartli-Kahetia (Georgia), Letters to Potemkin, RGVIA f 52. VI (1983) no 7

  Howard, J., The State of Prisons in England and Wales with preliminary observations and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals, London 1792

  Iona (Jonah), Metropolitan, Description of
Potemkin’s last days, ZOOID 3

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Letters to Potemkin, RGVIA f 52

  Joseph II, Leopold II und Kaunitz. Ihr Briefwechsel, ed A. Beer, Vienna 1873

  Joseph II und Katharina von Russland. Ihr Briefwechsel, ed Alfred Ritter von Arneth, Vienna 1869

  Maria Theresa und Joseph II. Ihre Correspondenz, ed Alfred Ritter von Arneth, Vienna 1867

  Joseph II und Graf Ludwig Cobenzl. Ihr Briefwechsel, fontes rerum austriacarum, ed A. Beer and J. Fiedler, Vienna 1873

  Joseph II und Leopold von Toscana. Ihr Briefwechsel 1781 bis 1790 ed. Alfred Ritter von Arneth, Vienna 1872

  Keith, Sir Robert Murray, Memoirs and Correspondence, London 1849

  Khrapovitsky, A. V., Dnevnik 1782–93, St Petersburg 1874 and Moscow 1901

  Korsakov, N. I., Letters and reports to Potemkin, RGVIA f 52

  Langeron, Alexandre, Comte de, AAE, Quai d’Orsay, Paris

  Des armées russes et turques

  Détails sur la composition et l’organisation des armées turques et sur la manière actuelle des russes de faire la guerre

  Journal de campagnes faites au service de Russie par le comte de Langeron: résumé de campagnes de 1787, 1788, 1789 des russes contre les turcs en Bessarabie, en Moldavie and dans le Kouban

  Deuxième campagne en Bessarabie et en Moldavie en 1790

  Evénements politique de l’hiver de 1790–1791 en Russie et fêtes de Petersburg

  Troisième campagne en Moldavie et en Bulgarie 1791 – événements de la campagne en 1791 des russies contre les turcs